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March 4, 2016
Your Schools
Intermediate school charts strategy for
continued success
By Gustavo Bahena
Public Affairs Office
Tiefort View Intermediate School at Fort
Irwin hosted a strategic planning meeting with
school district officials, administrators, teach-
ers, students and parents, Feb 19.
The meeting served as a collaboration and
brain-storming session at the local level within
the Silver Valley Unified School District, which
manages seven schools in the high desert. Three
of those schools are located within the garrison
of the National Training Center; the district’s
Silver Valley High School, in Yermo, Calif.,
serves most high-school aged students of this
military installation.
The school district has implemented a
strategy for its schools that encompasses four
pillars, or priorities, which are: student achieve-
ment, technology, student/parent support and
fostering a culture of excellence leading to
district stability.
Jeff Youskievicz, assistant superintendent of
educational services with SVUSD, stated the
four areas fall under the district’s’ local control ing the expectations rather than waiting for
and accountability plan (LCAP) the state of
California has requested of all districts in the
state. The LCAP is tied directly to state funding
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for school districts. Photo by Aubrey Zucco, TVIS principal
At the TVIS meeting, four presentations Silver Valley Unified School District officials, Tiefort View Intermediate School
administrators and teachers, parents, and students gathered at the TVIS library to discuss
were conducted that explained the school’s the school’s strategy for success, Feb. 19.
methods and future plans for: technology, par-
ent and community involvement, response to include additional information for parents in used at home, more information about school
intervention (RTI), and positive behavior in- a monthly newsletter distributed by the TVIS activities, and a link to a technology website.
terventions and support (PBIS). The attendees Parent Teacher Organization, said Zucco. One overall theme included the importance of
then provided input in the form of recommen- That will include PBIS techniques that can be
dations for additional directions in which the See SCHOOL, page 5
school can take, said Cameron Smart, senior
director of student services with SVUSD.
The principal, Aubrey Zucco, stated that
PBIS is a program that aims at changing a
way of thinking to influence behavior. It in-
cludes wording phrases in positive terms and
informing students of expectations that are
desired and letting them achieve those levels
of expectations.
The PBIS program at TVIS is called SHARP
for safe, honest, accountable, respectful and
positive.
Smart explained a goal of SHARP is to set
positive expectations and then work to moti-
vate and recognize students when they’re meet-
undesired behavior and applying consequences.
The strategy meeting recommended to
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